Fiona McGregor

Fiona McGregor (born 1965) is an Australian writer and performance artist whose third novel, Indelible Ink, won the 2011 The Age Book of the Year award.

Fiona McGregor
Born1965
Sydney, New South Wales
OccupationWriter and performance artist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Notable worksIndelible Ink (2010)
Years active1992–

Early life and education

McGregor was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1965.[1]

Career

McGregor has written for a variety of publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, HEAT, Meanjin, Times Literary Supplement, The Age, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper and RealTime. Following the publication of her first novel in 1993 she was named one of the inaugural Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 1997.[2]

As a performance artist McGregor has toured with You Have the Body, a meditation on unlawful detention, in 2008–09,[3] and she screened her 4-hour video Vertigo at the MOP gallery in Sydney in February 2011.[4]

Awards and nominations

Selected works

Novels

Short story collection
  • Suck My Toes (1994)

Non-fiction
  • Strange Museums: A Journey Through Poland (2008)
  • A Novel Idea (2019)
  • Buried Not Dead (2021)

References
  1. Steger, Jason (26 August 2011). "Winning words". The Age. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  2. "The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists 2007". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 June 2007. Archived from the original on 5 June 2007.
  3. Waites, James. "You Have the Body: You Win the Prize".
  4. Mudie, Ella. "Vertigo: Beautiful fear". RealTime Arts. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  5. "VPLAs 2022 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.


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